Projects

The FSFE is running a project to develop and raise awareness of best practices for the expression of license and copyright information in free and open source projects. The project is intended to facilitate management of source code by making licensing and copyright information more consistent in how it is added to source code in ways which allow for automating many of the processes involved.

Lock-in of data is one of the most common techniques to artificially
raise the cost of migration to Free Software. Ensuring the best possible
interoperability through Open Standards is essential in enabling users
to escape vendor lock-in. FSFE's work on Open Standards has the goal of
making sure that people do not have to lose all their data when
migrating to Free Software.

FSFE is committed to helping individuals, projects,
businesses and government agencies find Free Software legal
information,
experts and
support. We do
this by providing compliance, best practice, procurement
and governance resources
in-house, in partnership with our
associate organisations and through our extensive
network of contacts.
Our mission is to spread knowledge, solve problems and encourage the long-term
growth of Free Software. We are delighted to help you as part of this.

DRM.info is a collaborative platform initiated and maintained by FSFE to
inform on the dangers of Digital Restrictions Management and make visible
the concerns from various different groups. DRM.info contributors include
digital liberty, consumer protection, net-activism and library organisations.

A second directive on the enforcement of "intellectual property
rights" has been proposed by the European Commission. It aims to
criminalise all "intentional, commercial-scale"
infringements, and to allow rights-holders to take part
investigations. FSFE will be pointing out to the EU institutions how
such laws encourage abuse of the legal system and have chilling
effects on law-abiding activities.

In 2001 the European Union, through the DG Competition of the
European Commission (lead by Mr. Mario Monti), started investigating
Microsoft's dominant position in the market for desktop operating systems.
The Free Software Foundation Europe was invited by the
European Commission to represent the interests of the Free Software movement. Since 2004,
FSFE is participating in the appeal to again defend
competition and freedom of choice against abuses.

Software patents for Europe are currently being pushed forward
actively by a lobby gathering around the European patent office and
the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the interests
of the large U.S. companies. Software patents are a menace to society
and economy and the FSFE is actively involved in the resistance
against such plans.

The aim of the education project is furthering Free Software in all
education related activities and institutions, such as kindergarten,
school, university. Free Software is the best choice for all education
based activities as it encourages schooling of understanding over
product schooling and upholds the scientific principle.

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